Residual

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A residual is generally a quantity left over at the end of a process. It may refer to:

• Residual (entertainment industry), in business, one of an ongoing stream of payments for the completion of past achievements
• ResidualVM, a game engine recreation
• Residual claimant, in insolvent businesses, the shareholders, partners, or sole proprietor to a bankrupt organization receive any money that is left after all assets are sold and all creditors paid
• Residual frame, in video compression
• Residual stress, the stresses that remain in a material after the original cause of the stresses, for example external forces or heat gradient, has been removed.
• Residual volume, the amount of air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation

In mathematics, statistics and econometrics, residual may refer to:

• Errors and residuals in statistics
  • Studentized residual
• Residual time, in the theory of renewal processes
• Residual (numerical analysis)
  • Minimal residual method
  • Generalized minimal residual method
• Residual set, the complement of a meager set
• Residual property (mathematics), a concept in group theory
• Residually finite group, a specific residual property
• The residual function attached to a residuated mapping
• Residue (complex analysis)
• Solow residual, in economics

See also

• Residue